They are going to open its 18 swimming beaches late in July though these beaches are located in the lower reaches of a sea current from Fukushima plant, which still keeps leaking highly contaminated water.

In all of 4 times tests, Ibaraki prefecture set the lowest detectable level of Tritium in seawater as 20,000 Bq/m3, which is 20 times much as Cesium-134/137 for some reason. When the reading was lower than that level, they announced only “ok” without mentioning the detailed analysis result.

See also.. Highest density of All β and Cs-134 measured from groundwater near Reactor 2 [URL]

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Fukushima Diary is the news site of a corporation Fukushima Diary SRL and all the articles are written by Iori Mochizuki.
He was in Yokohama, where is about 300km from Fukushima nuclear plant when 311 took place.
This site started when he was forced to collect information to decide to go or not to go.
At this moment, this is the only news site in the world on Fukushima issue written in English, by a Japanese citizen who was there on 3/11/2011.

Several articles are published daily and all the posts are about the current Fukushima plant situation, on-going health problems among Japanese people, media blackout situation and global effect etc.. Most of them are not covered by mass media all around the world.